Teacher training - Primary school

1. Teacher training - Primary school
2. Fronter - a first meeting
3. My Today Page
4. Where do we write in Fronter - the built in text editor
5. Create a new room
6. Room
7. The room is ready
   1. Members
   2. Send e-mails to the students/pupils
   3. Send Stickies/personal messages to the students/pupils
   4. Sending text messages
   5. My Work (resources folder)
   6. Folders with customised access
   7. Add documents in resource folder
   8. Create link collection
   9. Messages
   10. Calendar
   11. Hand In
   12. Test
   13. Forum
   14. Sound Recorder
   15. Image Resize
   16. Portfolio
8. Case study: Working with Unit 4 - Autobiography
9. Case study - From Pages to Learning paths
10. Booking a resource
11. Parent / Carer Login
12. Handy Hints
13. Version control

Test

In Fronter we have a very useful tool for designing exercises, tests, evaluations, and surveys etc - the test tool. Here we will look at an example where the students can give a feedback on their work or working period.

First we create the test in the hidden subfolder Test:

Give the test an appropriate title:

Save and you see this screen:

A little bit about each separate point:

(1) is the navigation area where you have a display of the individual questions and any pages that when combined, making up the test.

(2) displays information about the settings for the test in question.

(3) here you can take the test (as a teacher to see how it will be for the student - but you can also use the student view - this is explained later in the document)

(4) this is where you have all the settings

General

1. If you click in Description it will expand for possibility to write more text
2. A test must be Active when the students are allowed to take the test.
3. You can customise the opening hours for the test
4. If you choose Anonymous (survey) you will not be able to see who has taken the test, and the statistics is with no names.
5. Here you choose if the students get an automatic feedback or if the feedback is a personal feedback from the teacher.
6. The test can be opened in a new window to make it easier to read the questions.

Submission

1. Auto numbering is handy if you add or delete questions.
2. Here you decide if a test comes up with randomly selected questions.
3. It is also possible to have a time limit to a test. The test will automatically be submitted when time is out.
4. Here you decide if the students are allowed to take the test once or several times.

Feedback

(1) Here you have several options for feedback: show or hide the correct answers to the students and so on.

2. This is the main switch: If you select Published all feedback to the students are hidden. This means you can evaluate a test and when you have finished this work you change the setting to Graded. Then your evaluation becomes visible to the students.
3. By multiple responses from a student, decide which test result should display in Result matrix and Statistics in the Portfolio tool

Advanced

The questions in a test can be copied to another test. Copying means editable, linking means you have to edit the question in the "source test".

Creating the questions

Select New question:

1. Here you write the question itself.
2. If you need more space for the question click the link at you will get a large window to type into.
3. Select question type:
   1. Heading - used to separate parts of the test
   2. Text field - for short text answers
   3. Text area - for longer answers like "In my opinion it is...."
   4. Check-boxes - more than one option can be ticked
   5. Radio buttons - just one option can be ticked (default)
   6. Drop-down select - same as radio button, but shown as a drop down menu
   7. Matrix - for compressed design when several questions have the same alternative answers.
4. Here you give the alternatives, scores and select correct answers (if relevant).
5. Settings for this question.

Here is an example:

If you choose Preview the test how it will look like for the students:

Before any student can take the test it must be activated:

Philip takes the test:

After Philip has submitted the answers he gets this feedback:

This feedback is a result of this setting in the test:

When the teacher opens the test after at least one submission, the statistics show up:

You can click on each submission:

and

Or you can see the Summary (text fields, text area answers):

Or finally, the graph (radio buttons, check-boxes):